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In our last blog, we mentioned how our four-year training to serve with Ethnos360 included two years attending Ethnos360 Bible Institute and two years at the Ethnos360 Training Center. We completed our training in 2008 and began support raising in 2009 as members of the organization. After serving in Papua New Guinea for a few years, we transitioned to serving Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethnos M\u00e9xico also has two two-year Bible Institutes and one two-year cross-cultural ministry training program. One of our interests in transitioning to Mexico was to serve in our national training program.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Our goal as an organization is to reach the least reached peoples of the globe with the Good News of salvation in Christ and to see thriving churches among these peoples. Mexico is a country that we work in because there are many people groups who have yet to have a clear Gospel witness in their heart language. So, the field of Mexico receives cross-cultural workers to work among these people groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mexico is also what is called a \u201csending field.\u201d This means that in Mexico, we train Latin cross-cultural workers and send them out to reach the people groups of Mexico and to the ends of the earth. In order to become a member of our organization, each candidate has to have four years of training: two years of Biblical studies from a Bible Institute, college, or seminary, as well as two more years in our cross-cultural training program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Originally, we had planned to work in Mexico City at our Bible Institute, but before moving down, we were asked in 2018 to stay in Chihuahua and serve in both departmental and organizational leadership. Nevertheless, our interest in investing in the next generation of Latin cross-cultural workers has remained, and as such, we serve as visiting instructors for our two-year cross-cultural training program.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This past week, we began teaching a class called \u201cSustainable Integrity.\u201d This class is an overview of biblical principles regarding moral integrity for a life of ministry. As you can imagine, this is a very important topic for our training program. Our desire is to see people thrive in their personal lives and ministries, and this is one area that we have seen can have drastic consequences for the work. Beth and I will both be teaching, along with our friend Hector, who is also the training program director.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We consider it a huge privilege to be able to invest in the next generation of Latin cross-cultural workers. Teaching cross-culturally has its challenges, as we teach in Spanish and our current students come from three different cultures. However, it keeps us on our knees, and we praise God for the lives of each one of these students who desire to give their lives in service of the One who gave His life for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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